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1 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O Zion! Put on your beautiful clothes, O Jerusalem, holy city! For uncircumcised and unclean pagans will no longer invade you. 2 Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion! 3 For this is what the LORD says: |You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money.| 4 For this is what the sovereign LORD says: |In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason. 5 And now, what do we have here?| says the LORD. |Indeed my people have been carried away for nothing, those who rule over them taunt,| says the LORD, |and my name is constantly slandered all day long. 6 For this reason my people will know my name, for this reason they will know at that time that I am the one who says, 'Here I am.'| 7 How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion, |Your God reigns!| 8 Listen, your watchmen shout; in unison they shout for joy, for they see with their very own eyes the LORD's return to Zion. 9 In unison give a joyful shout, O ruins of Jerusalem! For the LORD consoles his people; he protects Jerusalem. Isaiah 52:1-9, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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